DISD receives grant to develop learning models

The school district is among 20 across the nation to receive a planning grant valued at approximately $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The grant is to be used to develop personalized learning models in schools of the future. The grant is part of the foundation’s Next Generation Systems Initiative, which will be conducted in three phases.

For Dallas ISD, this could include evaluating empty school buildings to determine the best ways to utilize them as innovative schools of the future.

Each phase of strategic planning will take six weeks to develop. Dallas ISD will work with community partners as well as the Boston Consulting Group to study best practices and prepare for the next step in the design process.

Applications for full grants are due December 2013. Afterward, the Gates Foundation will award 75 one-year new school planning grants and ultimately fund the launch of 50 new schools.

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